Top 10 Auctions on eBay

Top 10 auctions on eBay

Bidders with big hearts and big bones snapped up 150 pieces of Oprah Winfrey's wardrobe for more than $150,000, benefiting her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. Treasured hand-me-downs included size 9 shoes, such as Ralph Lauren cashmere bucks, and clothing ranging from sizes 10 to 14, such as a purple Carolina Herrera dress.

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Top 10 auctions on eBay

Bidders with big hearts and big bones snapped up 150 pieces of Oprah Winfrey's wardrobe for more than $150,000, benefiting her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. Treasured hand-me-downs included size 9 shoes, such as Ralph Lauren cashmere bucks, and clothing ranging from sizes 10 to 14, such as a purple Carolina Herrera dress.

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Top 10 auctions on eBay

Collectors bidding from the heart, not the head, drove up the price of a 200-year-old silver dollar to $50,000. "The 1799 silver dollar really strikes some emotional heartstrings with U.S. coin collectors even though it's not particularly rare – they love this really early stuff," said publisher Dave Margulius of CollectorsWeekly.com.

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Top 10 auctions on eBay

Kim Kardashian feared for the safety of her then-boyfriend Reggie Bush, so she sold his motorcycle on eBay without his knowledge – and got priceless security in return. In the past, Kardashian has turned a pretty profit on eBay. She once borrowed $5,600 from her father to buy eight pair of Manolo Blahniks, which she then resold on eBay for $2,500 apiece. It was enough to repay her father, who had insisted she sign a contract to pay back the loan with interest within two weeks.

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Top 10 auctions on eBay

What's the rule of thumb for tipping on a $2.6 million lunch? A power lunch with Warren Buffett was the most expensive item sold for charity on eBay, with proceeds going to Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco.

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On-the-go buyers, one would hope, were not behind the wheel themselves when they used eBay's mobile app to buy a 2007 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder for $139,000 and a 1985 Piper PA-46-310P Malibu airplane for $265,000.

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Top 10 auctions on eBay

Baseball great and anti-tobacco activist Honus Wagner was fast, but not fast enough to stop a few dozen cards with his image from making it to the marketplace inside cigarette packs produced by the American Tobacco Company in 1910. One of those cards, a Honus Wagner T206 featuring the Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop, sold for $1.2 million.

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A thrill ride on BMW Oracle Racing's yacht cost a Chicago businessman $102,600. Donald Wilson felt the wind in his hair and the spray on his face during the America's Cup elimination series, and his winning bid in the charity auction benefited Susan G. Komen For The Cure.

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There is power in numbers – and a little silliness too. The 1-millionth item sold on eBay was a Big Bird Jack in the Box. When the buyer learned of his auspicious place in history, he donated it to eBay to use in any eventual museum or archive. Today it sits in the main lobby of eBay's San Jose headquarters.

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Top 10 auctions on eBay

The very first 2010 Hurst Camaro to be made available to the public was sold for $61,900 via a winning bid placed from eBay's iPhone application. Ernest Feist, owner of the New Jersey-based civil engineering firm Feist Engineering and a long-time eBay user, said he placed a bid from his office and was kicking off the weekend with friends at a local bar when he got a notification from the app that he'd been outbid. He immediately upped the ante and, within 30 minutes, found out he'd won the charitable auction, which benefited the SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund.

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One man's trash is another man's $19,299.99 beer can. A Clipper Pale Beer Can, circa 1941, was sold to a bidder who saw treasure in what others might have seen as a rusty, 12-ounce empty that wouldn't even get them a recycle fee. The seller said the can, which once contained ale from Grace Bros. Brewing Co. in Santa Rosa, Calif., was found stashed "in the rafters of my old building, where I have found many treasures."